Pella Shipyard lays PS45 salvage tugboat for Russian Navy (graph)
Pella Shipyard based Leningrad region laid the keel of a high specification tugboat of Project PS45, the shipbuilder’s press service said.
The serial tugs of unlimited navigation area are being built for for the Russian Navy for a wide range of tasks of the fleet. The first two tugs deliveries are scheduled for 2014.
The vessel features several capabilities: sea escort of ships, floating facilities, in open and ice waters; supply of offshore facilities with equipment and materials, delivery of personnel and cargo, to assist in carrying out maintenance work at offshore facilities; participation in search and rescue (SAR) operations, salvaging stricken ships, SAR and medevac operations, conducting safety patrol on the shipping lanes, at offshore oil and gas fields. The series boats are designed to extinguish fires on offshore and onshore facilities, extinguish burning oil on water, responses to oil spills.
Moreover, the boat will be used as a harbor tractor, for operations in the shallow waters and in the shelf’s littoral zone, to assist subsea operations. The tug is able to break the ice thickness of up to 1 meter; escort of ships at the speed up to 10 knots.
The vessel’s basic characteristics: length - 48 m, beam - 13.3 m, draft - 5.4 m, speed - 14.5 knots. Classification - KM Arc4 [1] AUT1 FF2 WS Salvage Tug of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
JSC Pella Shipyard based in Russia’s Leningrad region was founded in 1950. In 1992 Pella was privatized as Pella Holding Co. comprising the head office and several subsidiaries. The shipbuilding firm specializes in building harbor tugs with rated power of 1,000-5,000hp, pusher tugs, escort tugs, pilot boats and rescue boats for Russian and foreign customers.
